I had made a wonderful, long comment about my childhood, and dark animation that I've enjoyed, and all sorts of stuff, but it would seem Satan my Mac saw fit to send a storm through my RAM, maybe an earthquake in my CPU socket, and made my browser crash, murdering my comment...

It reloaded the browser and told be that we can always make more comments... If we need them...

I had mentioned a number of dar animations that I had always liked. Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, The Dark Crystal, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Grave of the Fireflies, Barefoot Gen, Future Boy Conan, Now and Then; Here and There, Romeo's Blue Skies, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Galaxy Express 999, Akira, and others... Not to mention the film that this image is based on: The Adventures of Mark Twain. Those movies and TV series simply stand out from the rest as having themes or motivations ranging from mildly dark, tragic, bittersweet, and all the way to flat out grimdark. Some have happy endings, some have tragic endings. Some are deep, some just seek to pull the heart strings, and some aim to shock you. All in all, I think everything I listed is good, but to this day, it still boggles my mind, that of all the books they chose to include as "stops" on Mark Twains adventure, that they would choose The Mysterious Stranger... It just blows me away that someone decided that was an ideal pick for a children's movie...

Still... I'm glad they did. It resulted in a scene that will be remembered as a very dark piece of legendary animation, one that is not going to be soon forgotten by any who see it!

That scene is based on "The Mysterious Stranger." It was mark Twain's last novel he wrote before he died. A real mindfuck of a read. It's about nihilism. Anyways great job on this. You're style does the scene justice.